Places wherearewedude Wants to Go

Bent but not broken, this massive tree has stood in the garden for over a century.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

A series of life-sized statues of each governor of the state of South Dakota.

A monument to the forgotten French explorers and their landmark expedition.

A crumbling ghost town on the South Dakota prairie.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

A rancher expanding a natural spring for his cattle came up with bones – lots and lots of them.

In the middle of a busy airport, a statue honoring the astronaut who told Houston that Apollo 13 had a problem.

A tribute to the riders who bridged East and West.

This old-school soda shop is the home of the Tin Roof Sundae, a concoction dripping in chocolate, marshmallow, and peanuts.

Storage units with a wartime past.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.

The empty town of Scenic, South Dakota, is owned by a church in the Philippines.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.